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Clean Power Planet | A Renewable Energy Podcast

David Butler

Stories from people that are making a difference in the world with renewables, solar energy, energy efficiency and other types of green energy.

Episodes

20 of 41 episodes

A New Climate Change Podcast

Hey there, I'm excited to let you know that Keaton and I have just launched a new podcast called How To Stop Climate Change. It's a show abo...

01:34Mar 5, 2020

Retraining Coal Miners for Energy Efficiency Work - Frank Morris

Frank Morris is a former coal miner who was retrained as a residential energy specialist through the New Energy Intern program . This is the...

20:48Jun 23, 2019

Retraining Coal Miners for Energy Efficiency Work - John Craft

This is the second episode in a three part series about out-of-work coal miners in Eastern Kentucky that are being retrained to do energy ef...

26:46May 1, 2019

Retraining Coal Miners for Energy Efficiency Work - Rachel Norton

This is a very exciting episode. It's the first in a three part series about a cool internship program that retrains out-of-work coal miners...

31:38Apr 12, 2019

A World of Renewable Energy - Dave Renné

This is our second conversation with Dave Renné. He has such a wide range of experience in renewable energy that we invited him back for ano...

24:06Mar 17, 2019

DIY Wind Turbines - Solar Jim and Sustainable Jack

Our guests today are Chris Carter and Jack Martin, also known as Solar Jim and Sustainable Jack. Chris is a performing artist and sculptor w...

39:30Jan 9, 2019

One in Seven People Live Without Electricity - Ben Bunker

Ben Bunker is the CEO of the Global BrightLight Foundation, which provides access to affordable solar-powered lights to people living withou...

25:55Dec 21, 2018

Clean Electrification is a Shock to the Fossil Fuel Industry - Paul Bony

Paul Bony has worked in several areas of the energy industry. At the moment he's a Senior Program Manager for energy efficiency firm CLEARes...

25:41Nov 14, 2018

Bringing Renewable Energy and Educational Opportunities to Tribal Lands - Sandra Begay

Sandra Begay grew up in Gallup, New Mexico, near the Navajo reservation. Her grandmother lived on the reservation and her father and grandfa...

22:31Nov 1, 2018

Solar Energy in Texas State Parks - Andee Chamberlain

Andee Chamberlain has been the Sustainability Programs Manager with Texas Parks and Wildlife since 2009 and she'll be talking with us about...

24:25Oct 16, 2018

Microgrids, renewables and storage - clean power for the poorest people on the planet - Peter Lilienthal

Microgrids have a dirty past. They were once dependent on diesel generation, one of the dirtiest forms of power generation. Even with the ad...

36:46Oct 3, 2018

Solar Energy International is moving Solar Forward in rural Colorado - Mary Marshall

Mary Marshall studied journalism in college and then jumped right into a career in television news, working on NBC's Dateline and Nightly Ne...

32:30Sep 14, 2018

A Solar Power Podcast Partnership - American Solar Energy Society and Clean Power Planet

We're very excited to announce that we're partnering with the American Solar Energy Society for a series of interviews from their Solar 2018...

29:02Aug 31, 2018

Confronting Climate Change with Creation Care - Tim Darst, Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light

Tim Darst is the Executive Director at Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light, an organization that's mobilizing a religious response to climat...

21:07Aug 16, 2018

Clean Energy Credit Union putting the green in green energy

Blake Jones was an Ernst and Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2010. You could even describe him as a serial-entrepreneur. But it would be...

43:26Aug 2, 2018

Citizen Lobbying for Rooftop Solar - Lane Boldman

Lane Boldman is not your stereotypical lobbyist. She is Executive Director of the Kentucky Conservation Committee (KCC), an organization tha...

56:36Jul 28, 2018

From Energy Scarcity to Energy Abundance and American Power - Meghan O'Sullivan

Harvard professor and former Washington policymaker Meghan O'Sullivan was named the 2017 "Energy Writer of the Year" by the American Energy...

01:02:38Jul 18, 2018

Kentucky Beat Back the Utilities' Attempt to Crush Rooftop Solar Two Years in a Row - Steve Ricketts of Solar Energy Solutions

Steve Ricketts is a partner in Solar Energy Solutions, the largest and oldest company in Kentucky's fledgling solar installation industry. S...

57:54Jun 15, 2018

Pat Flynn: Taking the LEED

Stories from people that are making a difference in the world with renewables, solar energy, energy efficiency and other types of green ener...

18:49Jun 12, 2016

Solar Thermal is Hot - Ron Gehl of EOS Research

Stories from people that are making a difference in the world with renewables, solar energy, energy efficiency and other types of green ener...

19:27Apr 30, 2016